Verdun Piston Poppers pt:4

Fourth installment of the Verdun Car Club from the late 50's early 60's Part Four.




                            .Thank you again Piston Poppers for adding to Verdun's history & we here are trying to preserve it................                                 HF&RV - LesF

Verdun Piston Poppers pt:3

without further ado, here is the video that follows number 2.



                                                            ..................................HF&RV - LesF

Verdun Piston Poppers pt:2

part two from the Piston Poppers:

Verdun Piston Poppers pt1

First of several youtube videos titled pt:1-through pt:4

                 All thanks to the Piston poppers for sharing their history & driving us down memory lane.............................................cheers! HF&RV

Piston Poppers a Verdun Car Club

Verdun had it's çool'group too....btwn: motor cycle clubs & of course car clubs,one of those car clubs was called the 'Piston Poppers' and to their credit,they still know each other and have the odd get together.We had a bunch of their youtube videos on our old Verdun connections site,.so I saw no reason why we shouldn't share their Verdunhistory again......


                                                

..........................................................Cheers ! Have Fun & Remember Verdun ---LesF

1957 Montreal

If you grew up in this era,then you will no doubt be able to relate to the street scenes.
No ipods here ,no video games (maybe the odd pinball machine,but that's it) or you got a turn watching the TV (the only TV in the house) on a Saturday morning,



........and here is pt:2 of 1957 Montreal.


                                                                              -Cheers ! HF&RV - LesF

A collage of Montreal Streetcars Trams ........goofy music but if you remember streetcars,you will certainly have a memory prompt transpoting you back to Montreal many moons ago....



                 For a while you will see a lot of the videos that we had saved on our old Verdun Connections site, so bare with me,while I bore some of you with these old vids...
                                                             -------------------HF&RV  - LesF

    and here is an old 8mm homemade movie of the parade of trams at the end of their era circa: 1959 Montreal  "the day the street car died.....replaced by a bevy of chevy (bus's) the day the streetcar died........hahahaha

delete reply shgverdun wrote on Mar 7, '09 Les, Too bad there are no commentaries to describee the scenes on the photos. In the 40s I used to work at the corner of St François Xavier and Notre Dame and used the Notre DAme Streetcar to Place D'Armes. On the night shift I would go to the Craig Street terminal where the streetcar would enter the building to turn around and practically touch the building as it turned. Guy

delete reply jumper01 wrote on Mar 7, '09 I was just a kid in the fifties but the Craig street terminal always staid in my mind. If my young memory serves me well there was a tobacco shop or sandwich shop or something like that inside. I guess it was the fact that it was inside that struck me instead of the other places when we transferred outside.

delete reply shgverdun wrote on Mar 8, '09 Robert, You are right, there was a restaurant inside the Craig terminus wich I also remember quite well. Guy

edit delete reply lesf wrote on Mar 8, '09, edited on Mar 8, '09 I've added a few more shots of the Craig Street Terminus & relative pics,they can be seen in the 1st album on my site: http://lesf.multiply.com/ Look in the photo albums ,1st one..... Also if you use the 'Zoom In' feature while looking at the photo's individually rather than 'slide show' you will be able to really have a better look at the 'floorplan photo ' of the Craig ST Terminus: HF&RV

delete reply shgverdun wrote on Mar 8, '09 Les, Thanks Les, I especially like the photo with the streetcar coming out of the building wich is the picture of the Craig Street Terminus wich I have in my mind. Guy